RAMALLAH, July 30, 2026 (WAFA) — The Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) reported that Israeli intelligence placed prisoner Muhammad Ahmad Abdul Wahab al-Madani, 32, from Askar refugee camp in Nablus, under six months of administrative detention.

He was scheduled for release yesterday after completing a prison sentence of 12 years and two months.

In a statement, the PPS said that, according to the sentence issued against him years ago, al-Madani was supposed to complete his 12-year sentence on May 30, 2026. However, his family was surprised when the Israeli authorities filed another case against him during his years of imprisonment, which added two months to his sentence and imposed a fine.

His release was subsequently scheduled for Wednesday, but after his family arrived at the checkpoint to receive him, they were surprised by a call from his lawyer informing them that that Israeli intelligence authorities had instead issued a six-month administrative detention order, preventing his release.

It added that the case of prisoner Muhammad al-Madani, brother of slain Palestinian Mu'taz al-Madani, is not an isolated incident, but rather falls within a systematic policy of expanding the use of administrative detention against Palestinian prisoners and former detainees.

The use of this policy has reached unprecedented historical levels, both in terms of the number of administrative detainees and the number of administrative detention orders, both new and renewed, which, according to estimates and monitoring by specialized institutions, have exceeded 20,000 since the beginning of the genocide.

The PPS pointed out that the occupation has affected all segments of Palestinian society, including children, women, the elderly, patients, and the wounded. According to the latest data released up to the end of last year, the occupation admitted to holding 180 children under administrative detention, while dozens of women have been subjected to this measure since the beginning of the genocide.

It confirmed that the number of administrative detainees reached 3,244 as of the beginning of July, all of whom face a comprehensive system of crimes and violations, including torture, starvation, deprivation, humiliation, and assaults of all kinds and levels.

It also noted that a number of administrative detainees have died in Israeli custody since the beginning of the genocide, as a result of systematic torture, neglect, and abuse.

The PPS  emphasized that the continued expansion of administrative detention, particularly in the West Bank, has had a profound impact on Palestinian society. Thousands of activists in the social, political, cultural, and labor sectors have been targeted in an attempt to undermine their role in society and reinforce the system of control and surveillance imposed by the occupation within its colonial settlement project.

According to the PPS, the policy of administrative detention has escalated in parallel with  colonist attacks on Palestinian towns.

Israeli crimes inside jails have so far resulted in the deaths of over 100 prisoners and detainees, 90 of whom have been identified. The Israeli occupation continues its crime of enforced disappearance against dozens of martyrs from Gaza, refusing to disclose their identities or the circumstances of their deaths.

The PPS called upon the international community, the United Nations, and its relevant mechanisms, particularly the Special Rapporteurs, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry, and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to uphold their legal and moral responsibilities and take immediate and concrete steps to end the arbitrary policy of administrative detention. They urged the international community to pressure the Israeli authorities to release administrative detainees and to cease using this policy as a tool for collective punishment and reprisal outside the framework of any fair judicial process.

It also called on international human rights organizations to intensify their efforts in documenting administrative detention crimes and to work towards holding the occupation leaders responsible for issuing and implementing these orders accountable.

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